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This is insane. I can't even imagine being at the meeting where this was proposed "Advertisers want to know when their ads are being viewed" - "We could work
by cush 4y ago
This is insane. I can't even imagine being at the meeting where this was proposed
"Advertisers want to know when their ads are being viewed"
- "We could work with advertisers to have them add some metadata to the output signal, and detect that on the client"
"Nah, let's just record everything everyone watches, that way we can harvest the data and sell it to advertisers we haven't yet partnered with in the future"
- "Yes, that sounds like a perfectly reasonable thing to do and couldn't possibly have any negative consequences. That is unless consumers have a problem with it..."
"Who?"
- autoexec 4y agoI can't believe they thought they needed multiple 4K screenshots every second. What a waste of bandwidth!
- jiggawatts 4y agoAFAIK most such systems take greyscale screenshots, downsample them to basically not much more than a thumbnail, and compresses that with a lossy algorithm. Still though, people watch home video of their kids on their televisions! Some people make home-made porn for their own enjoyment. Meanwhile somewhere in a data centre in South Korea...